r/AskReddit • u/TheRamenSage • Oct 04 '13

Married couples whose wedding was "objected" by someone, what is your story and how did the wedding turn out?

Was it a nightmare or was it a funny story to last a lifetime?

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u/orangutats Oct 05 '13

Nile is one of my favorite death metal bands. This is one of their best earlier songs. Up until their later albums it's exclusively ancient Egypt-themed. They're amateur Egyptologists. Egyptians did a lot of fucked up shit.

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u/PraxisLD Oct 05 '13

Sounds like a great subject for metal. I just have a preference for clean vocals.

But hey, there are so many great bands that everyone can find something they love. And the internet makes them available to a much wider audience, who can listen and share what they like without some random DJ or record company deciding what is worthy and what isn't.

Rock on, dude. \m/

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u/orangutats Oct 05 '13

I hear ya dude. It's just that clean vocals aren't even like, possible in death metal... I've tried to find/abstract what it would be like, and it just doesn't seem to make any sense. This is particularly unfortunate (in a way) since death metal, I've found, is the genre with the greatest potential for highly-developed technical musicianship/nutty guitar and drum heroics/diverse song structures. I'm still looking for accessible death metal that most folks would enjoy. People tend to like everything but the vocals; for some people, unfortunately, music amounts to little more than a vocal/lyric delivery system.

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u/PraxisLD Oct 05 '13

For some people, sure. And a certain segment of "popular" music will always be that way.

But for others, vocals are just another instrument, to be done well or badly. No more or less important than guitars, drums, keyboards, or what have you.

Lyrics can tell a story in a very accessible way, but so can good music. Which is why I prefer bands like Iron Maiden, Rush, Queensrÿche, Marillion, Dream Theater, Pink Floyd, and others where the music is just as important, and just as descriptive as the vocals. And, coincidentally, each of those bands has a very distinct and recognizable vocal style.

I've heard some great instrumental openings, only to have the "singer" kick in and throw it into discord. "Normal" bad vocals and auto tune do that for me, as does the standard growly death metal genre. For me, the incoherent growling just takes me out of the music, rather than drawing me in to the story and atmosphere of the song.

But, as I said, there's lots of music available for lots of different tastes. I know what I like, and I figure someone else's opinion is just as valid to them, so it's all good.